#1Nov 9th, 2010
Remember when money was worth something?
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Nov 9th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Kreskin
Yep, I can remember a grocer delivering a week's supply of groceries for a family of six for under $10. Bread was 11 cents a loaf and milk was 14 cents a quart. (Milk was delivered separately by the milkman). I bought a small bottle of Motrin, 18 tablet pack of Robax Platinum and a 10 pack of Gillette Sensor razors. The cost? $56. Effin ridiculous. $5-something in tax alone. The grocery clerk took a second look at the cost and apologized.
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Nov 9th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Kreskin
Just be glad that you don't have the HST like we do in Ontario...or do you?I bought a small bottle of Motrin, 18 tablet pack of Robax Platinum and a 10 pack of Gillette Sensor razors. The cost? $56. Effin ridiculous. $5-something in tax alone. The grocery clerk took a second look at the cost and apologized.
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Nov 9th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by shadowshiv
In B.C. since July- we don't like it very much. Just be glad that you don't have the HST like we do in Ontario...or do you?
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Nov 9th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by JLM
It sure sucks!In B.C. since July- we don't like it very much.
At least the Eco-tax that McSquinty tried to implement here got turfed...hopefully for good.
How's this for stupid? The Eco-tax was placed on laundry detergent. Ummmm, how the freaking heck are you supposed to recycle laundry detergent? It goes down the drain, that is it's USE! Needless to say, this was just one of the reasons there was such a crap-storm raised about it and that is why they had no choice but to get rid of it. I wish we could have done the same thing with the HST...
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Nov 9th, 2010
When I was a boy, Mom would send me down to the corner store with a dollar, and I'd come back with five pounds of potatoes, two loaves of bread,three pints of milk, a pound of cheese, a packet of tea, and half a dozen
eggs.
You can't do that now. Too many damn security cameras.
eggs.
You can't do that now. Too many damn security cameras.
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Nov 9th, 2010
Jeezuz Cannuk, I nearly blew the pizza I had for supper out my nose!
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Nov 10th, 2010
When I was 15 smokes were 45 cents a pack, gas was 25 cents, a bottle of Pepsi was 10cents.
bars were a dine as well. order of fries 25 cents and 30 cents for a burger.
At 16 when i got my licence, Drive in movie, was 50 cents. a case of beer was 3dollars. and
money was actually worth something Hard to believe the cost of things today
bars were a dine as well. order of fries 25 cents and 30 cents for a burger.
At 16 when i got my licence, Drive in movie, was 50 cents. a case of beer was 3dollars. and
money was actually worth something Hard to believe the cost of things today
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by damngrumpy
Most of that stuff is still only worth what we used to pay for it but money is worth nothing.When I was 15 smokes were 45 cents a pack, gas was 25 cents, a bottle of Pepsi was 10cents.
bars were a dine as well. order of fries 25 cents and 30 cents for a burger.
At 16 when i got my licence, Drive in movie, was 50 cents. a case of beer was 3dollars. and
money was actually worth something Hard to believe the cost of things today
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by damngrumpy
I remember the price of a case of beer was steady at $2.52 for about 20 years, it started creeping up in the early 70s. When draught reached $1.50 a glass in the pub, that pretty much marked the end of my drinking days, I said enough is enough.When I was 15 smokes were 45 cents a pack, gas was 25 cents, a bottle of Pepsi was 10cents.
bars were a dine as well. order of fries 25 cents and 30 cents for a burger.
At 16 when i got my licence, Drive in movie, was 50 cents. a case of beer was 3dollars. and
money was actually worth something Hard to believe the cost of things today
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Nov 10th, 2010
God beer by the glass I remember when it was about a dime for a glass. I was in
Red Deer at the time. You are right though it kept creeping up and after awhile I
said to hell with this. I was managing night clubs in the late 70's and early 80's
and beer and spirits jumped to 2 dollars it was a major shift in drinking habits for
a while.
Red Deer at the time. You are right though it kept creeping up and after awhile I
said to hell with this. I was managing night clubs in the late 70's and early 80's
and beer and spirits jumped to 2 dollars it was a major shift in drinking habits for
a while.
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Nov 10th, 2010
I can remember draft at $.25 a glass on special at the Riverview Arms in Fredericton in the 1980s...I also remember going in there with $20, and waking up sometime the next day, at home, with nothing in my pockets, and no memories of spending it. I wonder what happened?
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny
Brings back memories but I did it on $3.00. I can remember draft at $.25 a glass on special at the Riverview Arms in Fredericton in the 1980s...I also remember going in there with $20, and waking up sometime the next day, at home, with nothing in my pockets, and no memories of spending it. I wonder what happened?
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Cannuck
Cannuck, that was priceless! A good laugh in the morning is every bit as important as a good breakfast.When I was a boy, Mom would send me down to the corner store with a dollar, and I'd come back with five pounds of potatoes, two loaves of bread,three pints of milk, a pound of cheese, a packet of tea, and half a dozen
eggs.
You can't do that now. Too many damn security cameras.
Thank you!
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by JLM
*Finger points at BC and Ontario from Nova Scotia*In B.C. since July- we don't like it very much.
I told yas.... I friggin told ya bunch of trouts dem bais in dar gov'nent r' out ta jig the lil' people of dare hard ern'd quid and none oar dem sav'ns dem lil' fk'rs promised t'was true.
Wel'comes to d'club wit dar rest o' us sogs.
In regards to the topic with the high prices..... I also blame NAFTA, those damn 10 cent deposits per bottle/can added to your 6, 12, 24 packs, and idiot tax grabs in the name of the environment...... among other things.
Quote: Originally Posted by JLM
In most bars, you're now looking at almost $5 a bottle.... I remember when I turned 19 a bottle was only $3.50 and a shot was a flat $2.... and a pack of smokes was around $5.65...... now where I live, that same pack of smokes is between $11 - 13...... in the span of less then a decade, smokes doubled in price.I remember the price of a case of beer was steady at $2.52 for about 20 years, it started creeping up in the early 70s. When draught reached $1.50 a glass in the pub, that pretty much marked the end of my drinking days, I said enough is enough.
And people wonder why "illegal cigarette" sales are flourishing and illegal drug use isn't going down any......
Oh but if you don't pay for the legal, much more expensive crap the government tells you to buy, none of that money goes to taxes to "fix roads or educate our children" ~ From one of the recent Crime Stoppers commercials where I live.
^ I'm sorry, but why the hell are continually increasing tobacco and liquor taxes being put to children's education and fixing the roads? Isn't that sort of a mixed message when you're putting tax money taken from the addictions of fellow citizens to help teach and educate children or to fix roads?
Maybe the health care or towards programs to help people quit smoking or drinking..... but if these insane high taxes on tobacco and alcohol products are for roads and children's education..... wtf are the rest of our taxes going to that we pay on other products??
The other argument on the Crime Stoppers commercial towards not buying illegal cigarettes, but rather, pay for the legal and 5x more expensive cigarettes is, "You don't know what's in them."
^ I don't know wtf is in the legal brand name ones either, but they both look like they have tobacco in them and they both have filters and I'd think the natives making their own tobacco know a bit more about what goes in them, compared to some big wig tobacco corporation who adds all sorts of additionally addictive crap into theirs..... which you pay a hell of a lot more for a hell of a lot less.
Great argument.
And some wonder why people don't take the normal path and work around certain things to save themselves some hard earned money. With the level of BS we all go through in life and the amount things cost these days, it's no wonder.
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Nov 10th, 2010
Paraphrasing the immortal words of Estelle Getty: "Picture it.... Canada, 1957".
A single man could rent a oom for $25 a month. Live and not go hungry on $1.00 a day. Visit the local brothel (once a week) for $5.00. Cup of coffee 5 cents. Loaf of bread 30 cents. And most importantly, a glass of draught beer 15 cents and a large pack of Export Plain 41 cents.
Let us not forget, though that the going wages were 93 and a half cents per hour. All this is quoted from my own personal experience.
Now that I am retired, after 50+ years, I can say that I am better off now than I was then.
So, let us stop the bitching. If you made nothing of your life, it is your fault.
A single man could rent a oom for $25 a month. Live and not go hungry on $1.00 a day. Visit the local brothel (once a week) for $5.00. Cup of coffee 5 cents. Loaf of bread 30 cents. And most importantly, a glass of draught beer 15 cents and a large pack of Export Plain 41 cents.
Let us not forget, though that the going wages were 93 and a half cents per hour. All this is quoted from my own personal experience.
Now that I am retired, after 50+ years, I can say that I am better off now than I was then.
So, let us stop the bitching. If you made nothing of your life, it is your fault.
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack
Who said anything about not making anything of their life?Paraphrasing the immortal words of Estelle Getty: "Picture it.... Canada, 1957".
A single man could rent a oom for $25 a month. Live and not go hungry on $1.00 a day. Visit the local brothel (once a week) for $5.00. Cup of coffee 5 cents. Loaf of bread 30 cents. And most importantly, a glass of draught beer 15 cents and a large pack of Export Plain 41 cents.
Let us not forget, though that the going wages were 93 and a half cents per hour. All this is quoted from my own personal experience.
Now that I am retired, after 50+ years, I can say that I am better off now than I was then.
So, let us stop the bitching. If you made nothing of your life, it is your fault.
We're just bitching about how things have gotten more expensive. Some things in life are better and other things are worse..... it'll always be that way, but that doesn't mean people still can't vent and complain.
If nobody complained, nothing would change
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Nov 10th, 2010
Ah people - this is a grumpy morning edition I guess
I like to think of all the conveniences our money buys now - most families have cars and television and all kinds of electronic gizmos to make life simpler - and many couples choose to work to earn more so they can have a better life.
I tend not to weigh my happiness on how much I spend any more - and if I have to "do without" on some treat or gizmo - I put it away for later.
I like to think of all the conveniences our money buys now - most families have cars and television and all kinds of electronic gizmos to make life simpler - and many couples choose to work to earn more so they can have a better life.
I tend not to weigh my happiness on how much I spend any more - and if I have to "do without" on some treat or gizmo - I put it away for later.
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius
Funny, I did not hear you about bitching how your wages/salary have gone up.Who said anything about not making anything of their life?
We're just bitching about how things have gotten more expensive. Some things in life are better and other things are worse..... it'll always be that way, but that doesn't mean people still can't vent and complain.
If nobody complained, nothing would change
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by YukonJack
For the last three years, they haven't..... and I had to fight tooth and nail for the two raises I did get before that..... others in my company haven't received raises for even longer then I.Funny, I did not hear you about bitching how your wages/salary have gone up.
Oh but the cost of my power, phone, internet, food and just about everything else has gone up.
But thanks for giving me another reason to bitch
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Nov 10th, 2010
I beg people to stop confusing technological progress (distractions) with an increase in living standards. I know if we had our current system but with stone age technology and standards than we would all be in revolt.
In the 1950s, a man working an entry level job at a factory could afford - without decades of loans - an automobile, a home, an annual yearly vacation and the wife could stay at home and raise 2-5 kids.
If we still had the same living standards in our society, than practically everyone who is employed in a full time entry factory or office position would at minimal have a computer or two, a car or two, a home (that the bank doesn't own in a 60 year mortage), et al, without being in significant debt.
Instead in our current society, you can have both couples working as paid professionals (i.e. 120,000 combined before expense) and never be able to afford a proper home in Vancouver unless they sign themselves to decades in mortages.
In the 1950s, a man working an entry level job at a factory could afford - without decades of loans - an automobile, a home, an annual yearly vacation and the wife could stay at home and raise 2-5 kids.
If we still had the same living standards in our society, than practically everyone who is employed in a full time entry factory or office position would at minimal have a computer or two, a car or two, a home (that the bank doesn't own in a 60 year mortage), et al, without being in significant debt.
Instead in our current society, you can have both couples working as paid professionals (i.e. 120,000 combined before expense) and never be able to afford a proper home in Vancouver unless they sign themselves to decades in mortages.
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny
It's the Maritimes.... it's the norm around here. Jobs are not that easy to come by, which is why so many head out west to work on the oil sands.... which is one of the other reasons why I'm moving to Australia. Employers around here have no issues of threatening to replace you with some university student willing to work for far less, because there are thousands of Uni grads around here desperate for a job..... I was one of them.... and considering the amount of colleges/universities around here and being dubbed "Canada's Education Province"..... they're not too far from the truth in regards to finding some chump fresh from college/university to take your job for far less pay.Your employer sure sucks.
To be honest, this is one of the better jobs I've had since leaving high school..... and the most I've been paid so far.
Yet it's still less then half of what I could earn out west or in Australia and still far less then what I was told I'd be making from those teaching me in college.
Nova Scotia/Maritimes are a wonderful place to live, great environment, decently friendly people, lots of things to see and do..... but when it comes to jobs, this place is a sh*t hole and employers around here know it.
And people wonder why us Maritimers have chips on our shoulders.
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny
Myself, I am paid more than most people in Vancouver but its hard to keep quiet about the injustices that is the Vancouver's real estate market. Your employer sure sucks.
In all likelihood, following my colleagues, I am probably looking into migrating to the United States (as ironic as it sounds) or working out an agreement in which I am working for a western corporation, for a western wage but living in Latin America and, or Eastern Europe, as I am fluent in both Spanish and Russian.
I don't think I was put on this planet to be a slave and to live a miserable lifestyle. Yet, I may tolerate that if I were religious but I am not religious. Much like I would tolerate the status quo if I were binded to a concept of the "greater good", but everyday I am faced with the reality that Canada is a country full of hate, whether it is class-based (this thread is a good indicator), race-based (namely the multiculturalism institution which is hostile towards people like me), or culturally based between the Anglo-Canadians and Franco-Canadians.
Probably a good reason because capitalism thrives much better in an environment in which the masses are divided and conquered and the elites have no means of identification (i.e. no strong national identity which binds the CEOs to the working poor) with the remainder of society and hence no second thoughts about exploiting them.
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius
Want some cheese with that?It's the Maritimes.... it's the norm around here. Jobs are not that easy to come by, which is why so many head out west to work on the oil sands.... which is one of the other reasons why I'm moving to Australia. Employers around here have no issues of threatening to replace you with some university student willing to work for far less, because there are thousands of Uni grads around here desperate for a job..... I was one of them.... and considering the amount of colleges/universities around here and being dubbed "Canada's Education Province"..... they're not too far from the truth in regards to finding some chump fresh from college/university to take your job for far less pay.
I've been here 20 years. Some of my classmates and friends have gone to Alberta; some have come back here.
I've also known people who have moved here from out west and Ontario.
You happen to work for a lousy employer.
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny
Why? To shove it up your ass with a twist?Want some cheese with that?
Sure.
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Well whoopty do for you, I've been here for 30..... want to see how big my d*ck is too while we're at it, cuz I'm sure mines bigger too.I've been here 20 years. Some of my classmates and friends have gone to Alberta; some have come back here.
I've also known people who have moved here from out west and Ontario.
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What you claim compared to what I've experienced, what my wife is currently going through, what my friends have experienced, what my family has experienced, what my fellow classmates in college have experienced, what many polls and studies have found..... would all generally disagree with your claims.You happen to work for a lousy employer.
I guess all of us and all those people flying out to work in the oil sands all just have bad luck huh? I suppose you're the standard everybody should adhere to.
The fact that the only people out of the two college course I have taken who ever really landed a job in the field they went to college for is myself and two others would prove my claims true for the most part...... out of some 80 students in total (about 40 per course)..... the other two that landed jobs had to leave the country to get their jobs and while I've been doing fine for myself in my field while remaining where I am in Nova Scotia.... I've come to realize that I've reached the dead end of where my career is going to take me here.
That's not bitching or complaining.... that's just fact. A fact I long accepted a couple of years ago and is why I'm going to head elsewhere because if I ever want to start a family and still be able to live decently, I'm going to have to..... either that or end up begging the system for money to help raise my kids like half the other families around here who have no other options.
I didn't create the crap-ass employment environment here.... it already existed long before I came along.
The only jobs that are in abundance around here are minimum wage, part-time jobs.... and if you like working two or three of them, or if you're working in some labour job, you don't have much to worry about I guess.
Of course there will be exceptions to every situation.... like you.... but exceptions are not the norm, are they?
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Nov 10th, 2010
I only buy analgesics when they're On Sale and then in Bulk Sizes-companies know how much people need them and charge the earth for smaller sizes.
Razor blades are a racket of an even fouler kind.
Razor blades are a racket of an even fouler kind.
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Nov 10th, 2010
Gillette is selling us our navy back one thin sliver at a time.
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Nov 10th, 2010Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius
Every time we try to hire someone, we have a terrible time finding anyone with even a small portion of the qualifications we're looking for (and in my opinion, we aren't looking for much). But then again, we now have a computer web design guy essentially acting as our receptionist, 'cause he can't find a job in his field. Maybe it's like every other skill: the demand comes and goes, the job market comes and goes.The only jobs that are in abundance around here are minimum wage, part-time jobs.... and if you like working two or three of them, or if you're working in some labour job, you don't have much to worry about I guess.
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